Chapter 410 Because of Love, Abandoned Again and Again
Raymond helped Paige clean the blood off her hands and gave her a clean coat to wear.
"Too much has happened today. Everyone needs a good rest. How about we go home first?" Raymond said, glancing back at Francesca.
He continued to Paige, "Let's take them with us, okay?"
Paige said, "I can go back, but it's either The Carnegie Estate or The Ellison Villa. It seems that no matter which home I go to, I can't avoid it!"
Going back to The Ellison Villa, Francesca was Wesley's biological daughter, and as a granddaughter, her relationship with him seemed more distant.
Going back to The Carnegie Estate, although the entire estate belonged to Raymond, the Carnegie family was also Gregory's Carnegie family.
Paige still couldn't stop Francesca from going.
In the end, she realized that whether she acknowledged Francesca or not, she couldn't avoid her.
Raymond knew that Paige's words meant she didn't oppose it.
Francesca was crying, but someone was comforting her.
In the end, everyone went back to The Ellison Villa together.
Back at The Ellison Villa, Wesley breathed a sigh of relief. "I'm finally back. I've endured for years, planned and arranged, and finally found my granddaughter and my daughter."
As soon as Wesley finished speaking, Francesca gave him a cold look.
Francesca didn't seem too happy about this sudden father.
At the banquet earlier, she had no choice but to cooperate.
But now in private, Francesca might not acknowledge Wesley as her father.
Before anyone else could speak, Francesca said first, "I have no father. My mother died unmarried. Since I was born, I've been the illegitimate daughter of the Douglas family, with no father, inheriting everything from my mother."
Francesca's words still hurt Wesley.
He walked towards Francesca, without any of the authority of a superior, cautiously like a child who had made a mistake. "I didn't abandon your mother. Once, the three of us lived here together. Francesca, this house is also where you were born. I didn't marry your mother or give her a grand wedding, not because I didn't want to. The situation was dire; the relationships between several families were already extremely tense. If I had married your mother officially, it would have brought immediate disaster. Although we still didn't escape the calamity later, the Douglas family almost..."
Wesley choked up as he spoke.
He quickly adjusted his emotions and continued, "I thought you were all gone. Until twenty-three years ago, the nanny Ms. Miller, who escaped with you, sent me the news that you were still alive and had given birth to a daughter. Only then did I know my daughter was still alive, and I even had a granddaughter. But after I sent my message, I never heard back from Ms. Miller. And I couldn't find any information about you or Ms. Miller, either."
Wesley added, "Then I started faking my death to hide my tracks, trying to protect the Universe Group and the Ellison family's assets, while also searching for you like finding a needle in a haystack. For over twenty years, I never dared to relax or give up. Until five years ago, someone by my side matched a set of blood type data from a prison, and I found Paige. I tried every way to bring her to my side and continued to find you. Francesca, from the moment you were in your mother's womb, I have loved you and would never give up on you for anything, do you know that?"
Francesca replied, "So what if you wouldn't give up on me? You say you're my biological father, but where were you when the Douglas family was massacred? Where were you when my mother was tortured and killed? You could choose not to register the marriage, not to have a wedding, but why couldn't you protect her? Forty-three years ago, I was only five. At five, I watched the bandits kill over a hundred members of my family. Ms. Miller hid me in a cabinet, but through the crack in the door, I saw all the slaughter. Do you know what it's like to see blood covering a mansion as big as this one? Do you know how terrifying that scene is? Do you know what they did to my mother? You know nothing. Your beloved woman was humiliated and killed, and you weren't there to protect her. That day, blood mixed with rainwater, staining the entire garden and backyard of the Douglas Mansion. Do you know how I survived?"
Francesca choked and then continued, "After the bandits killed everyone, they were still afraid of missing one or two and continued to search the entire house, including the basement. Ms. Miller was stabbed twice. She was lucky; her heart was naturally positioned differently, so she survived. She risked her life, smeared the blood of corpses on me, hid me in a pile of bodies, knocked me out, and escaped with me. Even after escaping death, we didn't dare to stay in Dominia. She took me to hide in a refugee camp's concrete pipe, stitched her wounds herself, biting through two teeth in pain, begging for leftover food, using the cheapest medicine to survive. We didn't dare to stay. After the situation calmed down, we went back to pack some things and chose Northwind to live incognito. I couldn't be called Francesca Douglas; I changed my name to Francesca Miller, following Ms. Miller's surname. She did everything to raise me until I grew up. She is my reborn parent. I have no mother, and I have no father! I lived incognito, barely surviving, not daring to set foot in Dominia, not daring to raise my daughter myself."
Francesca said, tears streaming down her face. "Do you know, you stand in front of me and easily say you're my father. But look over there, look at her, she is my biological daughter. From the moment I got pregnant, I racked my brains thinking about how to let her live as an ordinary person, away from everything. Even if one day my identity is exposed, it wouldn't implicate her. But do you know how I've lived all these years? I have my own biological daughter, but I didn't dare to raise her. I gave her to someone else, and I didn't even dare to know who I gave her to. Because I was afraid that if I knew, I wouldn't be able to resist wanting to see her. Now, she doesn't acknowledge me as her mother. And you and I, we're not close, and I won't acknowledge you as my father either."
Francesca said, turning to the disfigured man and shouting, "I want to go home. I want to go to my own home."
The disfigured man also had a look of sadness, but his face showed no emotion.
He just walked up, stood by Francesca, and protected her.
Paige, on the other side, could no longer stand.
The words Francesca shouted at Wesley also contained the reason she abandoned her.
The truth was that Francesca didn't abandon her again and again on purpose, but for her long-term survival.
But fate just had to play tricks. Francesca tried every way to send Paige away to live an ordinary life.
But in the end, Paige returned to her place first!
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